The Dick Tomey Legacy Game is the name given to the Hawaii–San Jose State football rivalry.

Beginning in 2019 the winner of the game receives the Dick Tomey Legacy Trophy.

Two years later in 1938, Hawaiʻi won their first game of the series, a 13–12 victory in Honolulu.

In 1941, the San Jose State Spartans football team served unexpectedly with the Honolulu Police Department during World War II.

The team had just arrived in Hawaii to play a series of postseason bowl games, known as the Shrine Bowl, against the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors and the Willamette University Bearcats when the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941.